Overview of ATP-PA s Demonstration of a Patent-Pending Combined Remediation Biomass & Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process

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1 Overview of ATP-PA s Demonstration of a Patent-Pending Combined Remediation Biomass & Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process By: Joseph J. James, President ATP-PA, LLC (ATP-PA) Phone: (803) josephjjames@bellsouth.net

2 Problems & Opportunities!!! Nutrient Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: There are excessive amounts phosphorus (P) which drain from Pennsylvania s farms into the Chesapeake Bay, damaging the ecosystem, due to extensive use of chicken litter fertilizer. Industry: Industry is looking for non-fossil materials that are better, easier to convert, use, or process into superior bio-products. However, Some Bio-Products Are Too Expensive: There is a need to reduce the cost of biomass. Lower Costs Will Increase the Use of Bio-Products: Using bio-crops and their biomass, multiple times, will reduce costs and facilitate the greater use of bio-products.

3 ATP-PA s Triple-Bottom-Line Approach ATP-PA, LLC (ATP-PA), the Pennsylvania operating affiliate of (ATP), will use cost-effective, combined processes to sustainably grow, use and convert bio-crops, and will: Enhance Pennsylvania s environment and quality of life, Locate its operations in rural communities, where possible, to create jobs and to improve local economic conditions, and Make reasonable profits for itself and its investors.

4 ATP s Combined Remediation, Biomass & Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process Under ATP s patent-pending, multi-step process, an allotment of bio-crops and their biomass is used multiple times, as described below, reducing overall costs: Polluted areas are cost-effectively cleaned up, by growing special bio-crops in them, whose roots phytoremediation properties remove problematic substances; then Once harvested, the bio-crops are shredded and used, as is, as poultry house bedding, with the resulting litter later converted into a rich, biochar soil amendment; or the biomass is converted into fillers used to make lighter, stronger and heat and water-resistant plastics, or a variety of other bio-products.

5 ATP-PA s Demonstration Project ATP-PA, is partnering with others, to demonstrate ATP s new, cost-effective and patent-pending CRBBP Process, to reduce excess levels of phosphorus in Pennsylvania s Chesapeake Bay watershed farm soils, and convert the resulting, lower-cost biomass into a variety of bio-products and bio-fuels. If all goes well, ATP-PA will develop commercialscale CRBBP Process operations throughout the Region s Chesapeake Bay watershed.

6 ATP s CRBBP Process Both Remediates & Lowers Costs!!! ATP s Patent-Pending CRBBP Process Simultaneously: 1. Cleans up P-Contaminated Farmland 2. Reduces Biomass Feedstock Costs 3. Produces Renewable Bio-Products 4. Creates a Cleaner & Safer Environment 5. Saves an Enormous Amount of Money 6. Creates Jobs and Generates Profits

7 Biomass Sorghum s Super Phytoremediation Powers Standard Sorghum Biomass Sorghum

8 A Maryland Eastern Shore Field of ATP-MD s Biomass Sorghum

9 ATP s CRBBP Process Lowers Remediation & Bio-Product Costs!!! P Phytoremediation: A low-cost, way that plant and tree roots remove toxins from soils, water, etc. Torrefaction: A pyrolytic process that converts biomass into enhanced bioproducts, like clean/renewable bio-coal. Combined Process = Much Lower Costs

10 ATP s Torrefaction Process ATP s Torrefaction Process involves Heating animal, plant or wood material (Biomass), in a low-oxygen environment (), which evaporates the material s water, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC s), and some Hemicellulose (HC). In ATP s patented process, the VOC/HC gases are Captured and Combusted to cost-effectively and with minimal environmental impact, generate Variable Process Heat. Pyrolyzed Biomass can be used to make a variety of Bio- Products: e.g. Biochars, for more productive soils; Fillers used to make better-performing Plastics; and Bio-Coal, which can be co-fired with coal in power plants, to reduce GHG emissions and pollution.

11 Schematic of ATP s Torrefaction (Pyrolysis)Machine

12 ATP-PA s Product Line ATP-PA will produce the following bio-products: Poultry House Bedding: A locally-produced, lower cost, but more absorbent bedding. Enhanced Plastics Fillers: Make stronger, lighter and heat/water-resistant plastics. Biochar Soil Amendments: Increase the productivity and water-efficiency of poor soils. Other Bio-Products & Bio-Fuels: ATP is involved in the development of other bio-products and bio-fuels, which will reduce chemical and carbon pollution. CRBBP Process: Cost-effectively remediates sites, while making the aforementioned products.

13 Overview of ATP-PA s Demonstration of a Patent-Pending Combined Remediation Biomass & Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process By: Joseph J. James, President ATP-PA, LLC (ATP-PA) Phone: (803) josephjjames@bellsouth.net